> "fiddler crabby" ya-nospam-hoo.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.2154b4c25efa71a7989848@news.newsguy.com...

>> In article bignews9.bellsouth.net>,
>> kentfinn@bellsouth.net says...
>>

>>> Almost 66 years ago. Most likely those who committed those attrocities
>>> are
>>> dead now, either during the war or from the passage of time. The
>>> youngest
>>> would be at least 82 or 83. You going to pass down that hatred like the
>>> Catholics and Protestants in Ireland or the
>>> Sunnis/Shittes/Jews/Christens in
>>> the Middle East. We all seen how well that works. People killing other
>>> people of reasons lost in the mists of the past.
>>>
>>> I told my step-father that and he used words that only you and maxo use
>>> here, but he had reason. He was a B29 radar operator in the Pacific
>>> Theater. He had friends killed and was shot at by "the yellow bastards"
>>> (as
>>> he put it) in Zeroes. Unless you a lot older than I think you are, the
>>> emotional component should not be there, at least if you're logical.

>>
>> My father was a radarman on a destroyer in the Pacific during the worst
>> years of the war. He saw Japanese pilots trying to crash their planes
>> directly into his ship.
>>
>> Twenty years later, in the 1960s, when we were living on base, our next
>> door neighbor was a Japanese woman who'd been living with her parents in
>> Japan during WWII. After the war, she married an American sailor.
>>
>> She and her husband became close friends of my parents, and I still
>> remember playing with their three kids.
>>
>> I never heard my father say anything bad about the Japanese, or about
>> any of the other countries the US went to war against.
>>
>> And he loves my Honda Civic :)

>
> The Civic is hardly a "clown car" as roadkill called it. It has plenty of
> room for 4 adults without crowding. The 2008 Accord Sedan has been
> classified as a large car by the EPA (room for 5).
>